So, really, what’s the lesser of many evils with a Los Ange-less NFL metropolitan area heading full steam into Year 14 of Blissful Abandonment?

You still feel you’ve been raided from all enjoyment one is allowed to have on a Sunday afternoon?

Do you ram your head against the drywall in anguish, deprived of the opportunity to extract $1,200 to 401-k plan to wedge the family into a row of seats somewhere just left of the Hollywood sign to watch a contest?

== While Steady Eddie Roski is busy crunching the numbers on an environmental impact report so his new $800 million stadium can be pre-fabbed into the side of some rock pile in the City of Industry and thus shaking the foundation of the highest level of professional pigskin, would he also be interested in surveying the general Southern California sporting public to see what impact that the lack of a team (or teams) here has on their TV-friendly viewing environment?

== When Roski’s right-hand man John Semcken proclaims that he has “no doubt” and NFL team will be in L.A. by ’09, why would anyone around here have any reason to doubt him?

== Shouldn’t the conditions of any new NFL team coming to L.A. be contingent on David Beckham’s footballing skills?

== What’s so terrible about settling on supporting the Los Angeles Chargers of San Diego?

== So, just for conversation sake, what would Karl Dorrell and his staff had done at halftime in a game like UCLA had against Tennessee to get Kevin Craft back on track?

== Wait a sec: Would the SEC be most proud of the fact that it’s a combined 3-0 against Division I-AA schools so far, or 0-1 against the Pac-10?

== Not to take away any of the thunder from the new Oklahoma City NBA franchise, but … Thunder? Rhymes with blunder? Dunder? Plunder?

== There was no room on the underwhelming U.S. Ryder Cup team for a Rocco Mediate? Or, let’s rephrase that: There’s no reason for anyone to care about the Ryder Cup any longer?

== Can anyone forsee what CC Sabathia’s street value is worth now? Will there be trouble brewing in Milwaukee if the L.A. investment banker/ owner can’t scrape together enough spare change to keep him around? What’s to stop the Brewers from starting him every game between now and the end of October, except for the threat that some official scorer will take away his no-hit bit ASAP?

== The Kings’ decision to lock in newcomer Jarret Stoll may not sound like much, but does the four-year contract guarantee main squeeze Rachel Hunter will have a Staples Center presence, likelyto boost attendance? But does that also imply that the former Sean Avery main-squeeze has now become the Alyssa Milano of the NHL?

== How soon, in the spirit of Chad Ocho Cinco, before the new Dodgers left fielder is known as Manny Nueve Nueve?

Tom Hoffarth is a freelancer. He had been with the Daily News/Southern California News Group since 1992 as a general assignment sports reporter, columnist and specialist in the sports media. He has been honored by the Associated Press for sports columnists and honored by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association for his career work. His favorite sportscaster of all time: Vin Scully, for professional and personal reasons. He considers watching Zenyatta win the Breeders' Cup 2009 Classic to be the most memorable sporting event he has covered in his career. Go figure that.